pulling drain plug?????

[WolfPaddling]

Re: pulling drain plug?????

Pull the plug all the time, best when planing, if you can get it there with the excess water.Will work at low speed if you put more weight <br />in back and max the motor then pull the plug. Just the steep angle and weight of the water will force it out. As the boat planes move passengers closer to the bow and the water will "suck" out.

 

[sprithunter]

Re: pulling drain plug?????

Saw my grandfather do this many times on the same boat that I now own. Works well if your can get it to plane. Had the same "what the H$#l" look when I was about 13 yrs old and in the middle of nowhere Michigan UP.

 

[robsd]

Re: pulling drain plug?????

I pull it all the time running the Trinity River. I'd surely hate to be in a jon boat running that river with a plug on the OUTSIDE. Something would certainly knock it out and then your stuffing your shirt in the hole.<br /><br />Rob

 

[ben_a]

Re: pulling drain plug?????

I grew up around boats and boating accessories since my dad was a manuf. rep. I remember at one time he had some samples of a rubber ball that hung on two small chains in front of the drain plug hole on the outside of the boat. The idea was that under speed, the rubber ball would flop around back there and let any water in the bilge escape. When you stopped, the ball would be sucked partially into the bilge hole and held there by the suction. <br /><br />It was kind of gimicky I guess. If a stick or some other debris was to get in the way of the ball, I can see a problem occuring.<br /><br />-Ben